Heir to the Empire annotation #13: Grand idea…

‘”I wanted HEIR’s villain to be a military leader, as opposed to a governor, Moff, or Sith. But a normal admiral seemed too commonplace. Hence, the Grand Admirals. I first ran across the title, by the way, in connection with the German navy in William L. Shirer’s The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich.”

The novel is due out September 6th. While the slipcover is the new silver cover, the actual bound cover will be a reprint of the classic Heir to the Empire cover artwork.

He didn’t say the Nazis invented it, he said he first ran across it reading Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. Which seems like a reasonable place to first see the term as the first person with the rank “Grand Admiral” most Americans are ever likely to hear of is Donitz.